A Barista in Santa Fe: What a Long Strange Trip It's Bean, A Memoir

Bill Deutsch's memoir begins on Whidbey Island, Washington, in September 1991, while sitting in an Adirondack chair. Bill was working at The Boeing Company at the time and wasn't finding much of a future there. So he decided to become a barista. His journey to becoming an excellent barista would take him to Santa Fe, New Mexico; Summerville, South Carolina; Whitehall, New York, and back again to Santa Fe. This book tells everything he went through along the way, almost.